fpo9 wasRe: [Coco] NitrOS-9 Team:

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 7 Oct 2006 at 2:27, Willard Goosey wrote:

> >Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:57:22 -0400
> 
> >The IEE754 did go to Draft 10. I am not sure what
> >was the final release in 1985, Draft 8 or Draft 10. From what I
> >gather most were implementing Draft 8 of the spec. What I also gather
> >is that draft 10 may have removed the requirements for Decimal
> >Floating Point, which is apart of the MC6839 code.
> >
> Humm, I'm not real familiar with the details of the history behind the
> IEEE floating-point standards.  
> 
> By the time draft 10 came out, the programmers were probably either
> working on something completely different, or were busy porting their
> code to the 68K.
> 
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>From what I understand is that draft 8 was out around 1982/3 time frame. Draft 10 
was later. Also Draft 10 became the foundation for IEEE854 which is Radix 
Independent. IEEE754 only concerns is with binary floating point. 

> >ALso I have what appears to be the assemble source code for the
> >bianry file that is contained on RSTI. I don't think any of the files
> >on RSTI has the assembly source. 
> 
> Ohh, you should upload the source to RTSI, then.  
> 
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If I knew how, I would.

> >Not sure what assembler was used to generate the binary file. Thought
> >of one day porting it to 6309 compatible.
> >
> Motorola had lots of strange 6809 machines, and lots of strange
> opertating systems running on them, supporting lots of strange
> assemblers.  If we're really lucky, the source might be for the
> standard cross-assembler, with m4 or something reasonable.
> 
> Willard
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My first guess would be that it was an relocatable macro assembler/linker combo 
that ran on a 6800 or 6809 Exorcisor system. One with those giant 8 inch 
floppies. If a cross assembler and linker, then it was native MC6800 program. I 
don't t hink it was an OS9 assembler/linker as the standard OS9 module header is  
not a part of the  assembler directives. Instead it is done with FDBs and FCBs. 

james